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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03

OF one, to return the kolim and pay a
fire.
When the period of betrothal is at an
end, the bridegroom gees to the duI of
his bride, who is given up by her parents,
with dowry of tent, camel or riding
horse, cattle, and a brides head dress,
besides a bed, crockery, and trunk Of
wearing apparel. On the wedding night
the mullsh, or priest, places the bride
and bridegroom in the midst of a tent,
puts before them covered cup Of water,
and begins the prayers. Then he asks
the contracting parties if it is with their
full consent they engage themselves to
be married, and three times gives them
the water to drink. Mullshs sometimes
put in the water vessel an arrow with a
tuft OF hair tied thereto from the name
OF the brides horse, or one of her rib
bons; others dip therein paper Of writ
ten prayers. The happy completion of a
marriage is followed among the Kirghese
by feasting and games, and then the newly
married depart to the bridegroom's dul,
with the camels carrying the trousseau,
and the portion of his wealth which a
father gives to each of his daughters on
her mar riage.-Dr. Henry LansdeU, in
Hdrpers Magazine for September.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03

matched cabins of stone; though in some
cases they are two stories. In every case
they are whitewashed brilliantly, and
even the poorest of them has a rose bush
or fuschis, climbing over the rough
VALE. But am obliged to confess that
in almost every instance was Disguised
to see that the "midden u use the
Scotch word not to offend polite ears
was just in front Of the cabin, right be-
fore the eyes OF the housewife all day
long, it's malarious odors drowning out
the breath of the roses. Bonnets taste
fully trimmed with plumes or flowers
have supplanted the custom OF bare
heads; elegant dresses have usurped the
place of the petticoats and shortgowns
but the "middeu" still sticks in the fore
I, ound of every cabin, and through its
thick, black waters the family and the
guests must wade ere they reach the
threshold. Dear mel But 1 did talk
to the women as 1 had the opportu-
nifty about these dreadful "middens.'
And they did open their eyes very wide
at me as I said brsvely, "No American
farmers wife would stand it for day."
But I fear the "midden" will only go out
with the cabin itself. 1 blame the rectors
and their wives very much that they have
never made raid on this disgusting GUS
tom, for before the disestablishment of
the Irish church they had great power
over the people. But 1 suspect, from
what can learn, that they, the rectors,
devoted most of their energies to the col
Letting and raising of the rents, the COM
fort of their people troubling their sleep
and conscience very little.
(To BE coNTINUED.)
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
MUsIc's CHARMS.

Here is a story of a meeting Of credit
ors. The place was an old. fashioned
Scotch borough, fast dwindling into a
village, and the meeting was held in the
smoke.room of the largest inn, the time
being an hour in the evening when every
ores work was done. A chairman was
appointed, the usual prelimmaries were
gone through, and then the statement OF
affairs was read. Sad to say there were
no assets. By this time most of those
present had filled their pipes and ordered
comforting and soothing drinks. the
debtors solicitor had no offer to make,
and for time there was dead pause, and
every one looked very blue indeed. But
presently one of the company remem-
bered that the debtor had capital tenor
voice, and he suggested to the chairman
ehat. as he (the debtor could make no
offer to bis creditors, he could at least
give them song The suggestion was
met with considerable approval, and was
at once acted upon. The unfortunate
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
HOW HE KNEW HER.

We are unable to give any satisfactory
source for the following story, but it is
too good to be ignored for that reason.
Madame de Montgolfier, who died in
Paris, in the last part of the reign of
King Louis Philippe, passed her one hun
bred and eleventh year. It was her habit
to take q walk alone every morning in
the garden OF the Luxembourg.
One morning, while sitting on bench
there, che became conscious of peculiar
sensation in her head, and loss OF ideas.
She rose to go home, but found that she
had forgotten, not only where she lived,
but her name as well.
She called to gentleman who was pass
ing, Will you please conduct me home,
sir?'
The gentleman offered his arm.
"Where do you live madameP" he
asked.
az cannot remember the street nor the
NUMBER" said she; "and what is worse,
I cannot remember what my name lie.
But perhaps you may understand better
why should be in this plight, sir, if l
tell yeu that / am one hundred and eleven
years DID,"
"One hundred and eleven years oldl'
he exclaimed. "Then you must be
Madame de Montgolfer, who lives at
Number Seventeen, Rue d'Enfer."
Exactly, sir; / am she!" the old wo
man exclaimed, in delight.
She had found out who she was. She
was conducted to her home, and died
peacefully within two days.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
CONCERNING cRrsPUs ArTUcKs.

1
There is a singular appropriateness in
the time chosen by the Massachusetts
legislature to vote a monument TO Crie-
pus Attacks and his fellow rioters. The
present year has been sigualized by dan
geroUs riots at various points, in some OF
which property and life have been in
serious peril. As mob law claims and
threatens ascendency, it is certainly most
fitting that State which has not yet
erected monument to a single patriotic
statesman or general, should give prece-
dence to men whose merit consisted in
their making their own law and endeav-
ing to carry it into execution.
So far from any gain having accrued
to the patriot cause from the rampsncy
of mob-law, the country probably lost by
means of it, many who would have been
among its most valuable citizens. Hutch
inson, born in Boston, a graduate OF Har-
ward College, and, as his posthumous pa.
pers show, friendly to the last to his
native province, had his house attacked
pillaged and well-nigh demolished, on
suspicious which remain to this day I'M
proved. 1t is not at all unlikely that he
would have cast in his lot with the friends
OF liberty, had it not been for arguments,
illogical indeed, but for this none the less
cogent, urged upon him by unmerited
wrong, indignity, and obloquy. Among
the emigrant Tories there were many ma
tives of Massachusetts, with strong local
attachments, worthily respected and be-
loved IN their several communities pre-
cisely such men as would have deemed
peace and order indispensable to social
well-being, and as were likely to have the
scales, nearly equipoised, turned against
the cause SO largely buttressed by ire
sponsible brute force. But for the Bos-
ton mobs, large proportion of these
men, now recognized as among the mem
bers of society whom their fellow-citizens
could least afford to lose, might have
been saved for their country.
When the proposed monument is erect
ed, it is to be hoped that full justice will
be done to the parsntsge of Attacks. He
is commonly called negro. 1t seems GER
tain that he was half-breed Indian, his
mother having been negress, or, more
probably, mulatto. Thus, as regards
| the non combative African race, he may
have been only quadroon 1t was by
virtue of his Indian ancestry that he was
man of gigantic stature and of unsur.
passed strength and ferocity, that he led
the mob with savage war-whoop, and
that, had he not been shot, he would I'M
doubtedly have slain the soldier whose
gun he had seized, and whom he had al
ready knocked down. Let the monument
render honor to the race to which the
prime honors of that illustrious night
are due.-September Atlantic.
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ssar,,n, ftnme and Garden
FEEDING WHEAT.

The following is English and Scotch
experience in feeding: 81 grind the
wheat to fine meal. At present I am
feeding ten beasts on grass, with half a
peck per day, mixed with straw chat. and
cart horses receive one third peck each
per day, and chaff with grass. When I
take my horses in the house l shall give
one peck of meal and two pecks of oats
mixed with chat, and few cut mapgolds
to every three horses per day. 1 do not
give 1t to hack horses. Eating beasts m
house receive it, with roots and plenti-
full supply OF water, and il I feed them
very high | mix linseed-cake. I think
there is nothing better for pigs. For
sheep l have not used it except with cut
roots, then | shook it over the roots in
the troughs." Mr.. Wilcox, of Almonds
bury, Worcestershire, says, 81 have been
In the habit of feeding stock with wheat
for some years past. I consider il TO he
more nutritious than any other food
have ever used. My plans are as follows:
Out straw and hay to fine chaff-the
greater proportion being straw-thrown
over given quantity -four or five pounds)
OF meal, with as much pulped root as you
feel disposed to put, mixing it together
Give twice a day. To sheep I ALWAYS
give it crushed or bruised say pint or
pint and half each per day; it is the
nnest food for sheep have ever used"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
OLD TIMES ON THE WESTERN
RESERNE

Nowhere in this country can now be
found class OF men like the first settlers
on the Western Reserve of Ohio. They
were the culled grain of Connecticut, as
their fathers had been the culled grain
OF Massachusetts, and, transplanted into
a Few region, they developed genius
that is essentially Yankee-an adapted
ness to circumstances, which, 1 think,
belongs to no other than the New Eng
land people. They could drive an OK
team, or sharp bargain; chop cord wood,
or chop logic; throttle bear, or solve
knotty questions in theology; and the
most illiterate among them could make
the eagle scream on the Fourth of July
in the most approved fashion. And their
wives had the same universal genius.
There was not one among them who
could not brew and bake, turn spin
ming wheel, make her husbands clothes,
or darn his stockings, and at the same
time entertain guests, execute fine en-
broidery, or sing Watts hymns in way
to set the birds a-listening. Before it
had become national question, they
solved the servant girl problem by doing
their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "help"
only on such occasions as harvest time,
or when raising-bee was going on in
the neighborhood.- North american
ReUGeao for August.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
WHEAT AND THE WORLD.

Could imperial Rome have only grown
sufficient wheat in Italy to have fed her
legions Caesar would still be master of
three-fourths Of the earth. Rome thought
more in her latter days of grapes and
oysters, and mullets, that change color as
they die, and singing girls and flute play
ing, and cynic verse of Horace, anything
rather than corn. Rome is no more, and
the lords of the world are they who have
mastership of wheat. We have the mas,
tership at this hour by dint of our gold
and our 100 ton guns, but they are tell
ing our farmers to cast aside their corn
else that can be thought OF in preference.
The gold is slipping away. Theee sacks
in the market, open to all to thrust their
hands in, are not sacks of corn, but of
golden sovereigns, half eovereigns, new
George and the dragon, old George and
the dragon, Sidney mint sovereigns, ma
poleons, half nspoleons, Belgian gold,
German gold, Italian gold, gold scraped
and scratched and gathered together like
old rags from door to door. Sacks full
of gold, verify may say that all the gold
poured out from the Australian fields
every pennyweight of it, hundreds of tons,
all shipped over the sea to India, Aus
tralia, South Africa, Egypt, and, above
all, America, to buy wheat. 1t was said
that Pompey and his sons covered the
great earth with their bones, for each one
died in different quarter of the world,
but now he would want two more sons
for Australia and America, the two new
quarters which are now at work blowing,
sowing, reaping, without months inter-
mission, growing corn for us. When you
buy bag of -four at the bakers you pay
money over the counter, a very simple
transaction. Still you do not expect to
get that little bag OF -four for nothing;
your money goes over the counter into
somebody else's till. Consider now the
broad ocean the counter, and yourself to
represent 100000 Of English people
buying sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen
million quarters of wheat from the ma
tons opposite, and paying for it ship
loads of gold.-The English Illustrated
Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
GREAT MEMS ODDITIES.

Luther and Bacon believed in witches.
Paley used to go without stockings.
DR.. johnson objected to going under a
ladder.
Shelley, while composing, was continu-
ally eating bread.
Fuseli and Dryden ate raw meat to in
spire vivid dreams.
Scott wrote best while children were
playing about him.
Ladislaus, king of Poland, took to
flight as soon as he saw an apple.
Boyle wrote his poems while lying in
bed, with two holes in the blankets for
his hands.
Bacon, the great English chancellor,
tainted while gazing at an eclipse of the
moon.
Erasmus, of Rotterdam, one OF the
most enlightened men Of his period, was
thrown into fever at the sight of fish.
Henry I'LL, king of England, could
not bear to be in room where there was
cat, even though he might not see it.
Shadwell, De Quincy, Coleridge and
and the imposter Psslmanazar were ad-
dicted, as it is well known, to the use of
opium.
John III. Grand Duke of Moscow, fell
into a swoon at the sight of female
surely the strangest popularity ever no.
ticed in man.
Tycho de Brahe, the celebrated astron-
omer of the sixteenth century, dropped
to the ground whenever he caught sight
of hare or fox.
Perhaps it was not very singular, con-
sidering the cruelty of the man, that Ivan
the Terrible used to go and see prisoners
tortured before breakfast.
Melancthon is reported to have fire.
quently studied the gravest points of
theology with his book in one hand, and
in the other, the edge of cradle which
he continually rocked.
Byron was victim to shyness. His
biographer relates that while on visit
to Mrs. Pigot, of Southwell, when he
saw visitors approaching, he would jump
out of the window on to the lawn to
avoid them.
Few people can read or write we'll while
music is being played in the room, } ct
Alfieri found it necessary for the compo-
sition Of his tragedies. He was also pos
sessed with the strange ambition, not of
being the first poet, but the first runner
in Italy.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
AN ORCHARD FOR BEAUTY AND
PROFIT.

we spend money for Towering shrubs;
tne beautiful double Towering almonds.
the Welgelas and deutzias which deliobt
US with their spring and summer bloom
and we rejoice over them without ohiect,
ing to their "feeting show" Now. all
1nese are enjoyed solely for their beauty
An orchard Is NO less beautiful than these
a massive apple tree, a globe OF snow
just falntly tinged with the most delicate
PINK dwarf pear, pyramid of flowers:
a standard fountain of spray; the cher
ries and plums; and the peaches with
their soft violet shades-all these are mn.
surpassed by any of the popular flower.
ing shrubs. Now that the blooming sea-
son Is over and our sense of sight has
been gratitied, the fruit comes in some.
times no less beautiful with it's varied
brilllancy of color, but more useful than
the majority OF farmers are ready 10 be-
lleve' How many farmers ever think how
easy it is to grow apples and pears, and
how exceedingly valuable the fruit may
be made for feeding to their animalsl
When some Of my pear trees Uttered the
ground with their ripe mellow fruit, 1 fed
them to my cows. A peck OF pears with
two quarts OF meal and bran for a noon
day feed, increased the milk and butter
fully one-fourth, and when the apples
were ripe and only fifty cents q bushel
could be got for them in the market, the
horses, COWS, pigs and fowls had all they
wanted, and the ripe fruit did them a
good deal OF good. Some farmers give
the wind falls-wormy, hard, gnarled
fruit-to their animals and complain that
they are unwholesome. And why not?
Are they wholesome for themselves? Do
they not suffer the pains and penalties of
eating hard, unripe apples7 Why should
they expect their stock to escape similar
consequences? Give only ripe, sound
fruit to the animals; they will be greatly
benefited by it. An orchard is perma-
nent crop, yielding more than an acre of
roots and at scarcely any cost during a
mans whole life; three hundred bushels
OF fruit, one year with another, to the
acre, being by no means an extravagant
estimate. AT twenty-five cents bushel,
moderate estimate too, here Is seventy
five dollars per acre for, let us say, thirty
years, with no money outlay and scarcely
any labor beyond gathering the crop.
Two thousand, two hundred and fifty
dollars from each acre of orchard is the
total profit. Then why should not every
farmer plant and care generally for at
least ten acres OF apple trees? II he did,
snd fed the fruit, his stock would mostly
escape the diseases now SO destructive;
and 1t would pay into his pocket every
dollar above estimsted.-H. SteUart, in
Orchard and Garden.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03

The possibilities of COW for butter
making are astonishing. Years ago the
COW that would make one pound day
was considered good COW. Now we
hear that the famous HolsteiD, Clothilde,
since the New York dairy show, in which
she came off first best, has been tested
again, and gave, in seven days, 665 pounds,
IA ounces of milk, which made % pounds
"a ousces If butter. This was an aver
age of over 95 pounds OF milk and over
A pounds of butter daily.
This great milk machine ate, daily,
about II pounds of grain, consisting Of
two parts of cornmeal, two parts wheat
bran, one part ground oats, with little
oil meal. She had good pasture and
pure water. We can see that to accom-
plish such marvellous results her digest
i've, assimilative and milk seeretive or
gans must be large, active, powerful To
possess such organs she must have de-
scended from long line OF ancestors
which were bred expressly to create such
organs; in other words, she belongs to a
great milk breed, is a milk-making ma
chine Of the most approved kind. The
milk and butter are contained in the food
which she consumes, and she has a Ca
pacity for eating large quantity Of such
food ard for making the most Of it
American Rural Home.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
SEVERAL CAKES IN ONE

Frequently a housekeeper wishes tn
place variety of cake before a puest and
has not time to follow several recipes.
Imperial cake has the advantage of max
ing from one proportion three varieties
A proportion of it can be baked in a his.
cult tin, iced, and, when the icing has
stood till 1t is firm enough to mark il off
In squares with knife, melt little cboc-
olate In a cup over the teakettle. and
with small camers hair brush mark
each square as the taste dictates. Two
small bar'tins can be made, one with CIT
ron or ralsins, and one plain cake or n
cake OF three layers and bar-tin. Two
KINDS OF layer cake can be made nv out.
ting the layers in halves and filing each
with something different A piaca ~
white writing paper can be placed be-
tween the halves, and they can be placed
iightiy together SO they will not become
dry. The receipt calls for seven onnoas
OF butter for rich cake, six for a plainar
one; one pound of powdered sugar one
pound of sifted -four, scant half. pint of
sweet milk, one teaspoon of soda. SLIGHTLY
more than level, then level teaspoons ~
cream tartar and five eggs. Flavor with
Almond vanilla, or rose. Pulverize the
soda thoroughly and eift it and the cream
tartar with the flour. 1t is better ~ sift
1t twice Beat the butter to cream and
SUI the sugar in. Then add the yolks of
the eggs we'll beaten and stir for few
minutes and then add the milk. Have
some one stir in the -four while the eggs
are being beaten to stiff froth. The
whites must De lightly stirred in Just be-
lore the cake is ready to put into the
oven. Bake in quick oven.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-03
HOW TO LIVE TO BE OLD.

most interesting correspondent of the
New York Sun writes the following best
mode Of making and preserving longevity:
"By far the most important, and almost
an essential, aid toward longevity is to
have come on both sides, or at least
on the mothers side from long lived
stock. Folks think says DR.. Holmes,
that almost any sickness can be cured il
only the doctor is called in season; but to
be in season one would often need to
have been on hand generations BEFORE"
or words to that effect. But, alas! this
condition, like that which the friends of
Herodotus deemed SO necessary to the
attainment OF great fame, being born
in great and famous city, is little out
of our reach.
Entered on the race the thing of
prime importance is to go slow. The
faster you go, the sooner you will get
there. Anybody can see that, and the
maxim includes every form OF activity,
everything that brings wear on the ma
chinery of life. But the worst by far
of all excuses here is physical toll. Anx-
iety, the worry of the heart, the black
care, which as they say can kill even
the nine-lived cat, is bad enough, and
no doubt prematurely splits the thin
spun h-ead' of many life; but compar.
ed with hard work it can make but small
figure in the true statistics of longevity.
"Still less by far should be credited the
labor of the mental faculties. 1t is much
the fashion, 1 know, to talk about this
and that eminent mans wearing out him
self by brain work; but doctors know
better. Study can no more cause paral-
ysis, softening of the brain, or any other
physical ailment, or even insanity itself,
save by aiding a predisposition, than it
can break leg. But the man who works
so hard at any kind of manual toll that
he goes home at night tired out, longs all
the week for his Sabbath day of rest,
and begins to stoop at forty, or before
this man need never hope to be centen-
arian. Ii he reaches sixty-three, the
grand climacteric of ancient Galen, he
will have lasted we'll. There is now
much less occasion for this kind of sac-
rifce and acknowledgment to ones family
than there used to be, and to this fact
far more than to anything else is it due
that We live two or three years longer
than our grandfathers did.
"The common idea that adults and
old folks, need to take great deal Of &C
tive exercise, even to the point of fatigue,
is sad error, Let nature be our lesson
giver in this matter, In childhood and
youth we are eager to run abroad and
kick up our heels, like all the other
beasts. Not go the old horse, and not SO
the old man. Poor Charles Dickens was
persuaded that his sedentary occups
ton made long walks necessary, and he
walked himself straight into the grave.
Pure air? If you cannot get it indoors
you must go out. But most of us can.
30 far as l have seen, or as any figures
show, the men and women of indoor life
hold out just as long as they who breathe
the fresh air of heaven